Hundreds of external examiners resign in UK pensions dispute
More than 600 academics record resignation in online document
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If the UCU strike achieves its aims, we’ll be worse off
The costs of the UCU’s pay and pensions demands make the fights for lighter workloads, greater gender and ethnic pay equality, and less workforce casualisation impossible, says Alexander Douglas
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V-cs make new offer to end UK university pensions dispute
Revised deal would set up expert panel to advise on ‘future joint approach’, and aim to protect defined benefits
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Letter: shrinking pensions could lead to recruitment disaster
We write as senior academics to express our concern about the proposal from Universities UK to end guaranteed pension payments in the Universities Superannuation Scheme (“UUK reforms ‘will cut USS...
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Call for external examiners to quit in UK pensions dispute
UCU appeal is latest escalation of row over future of Universities Superannuation Scheme
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Pension adjustment period
We write with reference to the consultation regarding the proposed closure of the Universities Superannuation Scheme’s final salary scheme. We suggest that the current timescales do not represent an...
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USS strike: academics (and football fans) are fed up with ‘dehumanising’ conditions
Protests by West Ham fans have striking similarities with the unrest sparked among academics by proposed pension cuts, says Richard Watermeyer
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UK university pension scheme deficit widens to £12.6 billion
‘Drastic action’ required to fix multibillion-pound shortfall in Universities Superannuation Scheme, expert warns
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USS bonuses went up £4 million as final salary pension scheme axed
Bumper year for fund managers at the Universities Superannuation Scheme
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Academic pensions ‘should be invested in university spin-offs’
Maastricht president says funds can help to build bridge between public and private sectors
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UCU leader: strikes coming as staff are ‘burnt out and leaving sector’
V-c warns pension and pay strikes will damage whole sector but union members believe experience shows industrial action will force change
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One in three union members joined strikes, say employers
UCU says that universities should focus on solving dispute ‘instead of trying to spin their way out of this’
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Brexit uncertainty may hit university pensions
Market shocks caused by Brexit vote may have implications for sector’s largest pension scheme
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USS strike: picket line debates will re-energise scholarship
The reawakening of political activism within academia sparked by the pensions strike will reinvigorate scholarship, says Jana Bacevic
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Employers on the future of the USS
Institutions are exploring how to address the deficit and keep the scheme sustainable, says Anton Muscatelli